The type of age-related cataract as a marker of socially significant diseases

Abstract

The aim of this research was to analyze the general somatic status and to compare the functional activities of the sympathetic versus parasympathetic parts of a patient’s vegetative nervous system in the formation of a particular type of age-related cataract. It has been for found that in cases of a cortical age-related cataract, the predominance of sympathetic effects of the vegetative nervous system and corresponding features of systemic diastrophic changes in tissues is typical. In cases of the nuclear type of senile cataract, on the other hand, the predominance of para-symptomatic effects, which led to dystrophic changes of a different type, was found. Therefore, the type of age-related cataract can be proposed as an accessible clinical marker of the character of the neuro-dystrophic process in a patient.